Comic Crime

Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1988. Soft cover. Very Good. This book looks new. The interior is crisp and clean, with no marks or wear. The pictorial paper covers are bright, with just a touch of wear at tips and corners. A very nice copy. Contents: -- Comedy and the British crime novel, by H.R.F. Keating; -- Laughing with the corpses: hard-boiled humour, by Frederick Isaac; -- What fun! : detection as diversion, by Elaine Bander; -- Farcial worlds of crime, by Earl F. Bargainnier; -- The comic village, by Mary Jean DeMarrr; -- Crime and comedy on campus, by Wister Cook; -- Guises and disguises of the eccentric amateur detective, by Jane S. Bakerman; -- The little old ladies, by Neysa Chouteau & Martha Alderson; -- The comic in the canon: what's funny about Sherlock Holmes? by Barrie Hayne; -- The comic capers of Donald Westlake, by Michael Dunne; -- Is it or isn't is? the duality of parodic detective fiction, by Lizabeth Paravisini & Carlos Yorio.